Tips for Preparing Your Internship Presentation
The internship presentation is a public presentation of your internship report. It provides you with an opportunity to “show off” all you have learned through this experience and the related review of literature.
The following table provides an overview of the environment of the presentation as well as tips on how to prepare for it.
Include the following information:
• Title of your presentation, which should match the title of your written report
• Your Name
• Date of the presentation
• Information about the organization where you interned, include the logo
List the agenda for the presentation.Typically, the items in the agenda should correspond to the chapters in your written report, plus “Discussion and questions.”
An example of an agenda is:
• About the internship
• Literature review
• Details of the internship project(s)
• Lessons learned
• Suggestions
• Discussion and questions
Literature review:
(May take as many as 2 slides.)Name the key insights (between three and seven) learned from the literature and provide brief citations (author, year) of the sources that provided these insights two you
About the internship project(s)
(May take more than 1 slide. Present each major project on a separate slide.)Include the following information on the slide about a project:
• Final work product.
• Process used to create the deliverable (just list the key milestones).
• Key challenges faced and how you addressed them.
If you want to show a sample screen or slide of the project, do so.
Lessons Learned:
Name the key lessons learned in the internship.
Provide the highlights of the suggestions, in the following order (you should have at least one suggestion in each category):
• For the host organization
• For the Educational programme
• For future interns
Discussion and questions
Use a graphic to communicate this message.
REMEMBER:
The best way to make sure that you’re comfortable with your presentation is to be familiar with it, and the best way to become familiar with it is to rehearse it in advance.Consider two rehearsals: one in front of a mirror, the other in front of a “friendly” audience (that is, someone who makes you feel comfortable). During the rehearsal, watch the following:
• Time. Can you complete the presentation in the given amount of time? If not, cut some out. If you have too much time, perhaps you need to add some material.
• Visuals. Can they be easily seen from the back of the room? If not, perhaps you have too much content on them and need to reduce them.
• Platform skills. Make sure that you vary your voice, make effective use of your hands, and make eye contact with the audience.
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- Honour the contractual agreement made at the time of your placement - respect the workplace policies and procedures that govern your placement site.
- Act professionally in all instances.
- Know your limitations and your strengths.
- Ensure you devote the time to make the experience successful.
- Be open to what people have to tell you (listen to experience).
- Don’t be afraid to speak up, ask questions, and seek clarification on tasks to be performed.
- Maintain regular and open communication with your mentor.
- Be confident in the skills you have learned and don’t be afraid to take initiative to get the most out of your internship.
- Seek out opportunities to learn and grow. Often mentors are busy and forget about upcoming events and conferences that might be good for an interns development. Ask to attend these events and take every opportunity to network with other
- employees.
- Network and build good contacts with the different people you come across throughout your internship, including fellow interns. Build a network with fellow interns at your organisation and on InternsOnline.
- Get to know others in the office, find out what they do and seek their advice as well.
- Be open-minded about your experience, because even if it is not what you were expecting, there is always the opportunity to learn and grow from the experience.
